Because You're Worth It
✮✮✮✮ Caryl Churchill's Top Girls Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Imara Savage Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls exposes our discomfort with stories that talk of societal problems, without the service of convenient villains. We have a hard time thinking about structures that have proven themselves unacceptable, without being able to place blame on individuals or archetypes. Churchill encourages us instead to examine the ways in which those systems insist on our acquiesce
Queering the Gods
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses Old Fitz Theatre | Sydney directed by Dino Dimitriadis Mary Zimmerman’s 1996 play Metamorphoses based on the classic Ovid poem is a retelling of Greek tales; a collection of short stories from ancient times that continue to fascinate, in this epoch of secular pragmatism. Celestial beings and supernatural events that defy explanation, yet instinctively comprehensible and resonant with our natural appreciation for the magical, conspire as
